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judder

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chiefly British
as in to shake
to make a series of small irregular or violent movements the engine began to judder alarmingly just a few miles outside of Brighton

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“Judder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/judder. Accessed 8 Dec. 2022.

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